Windstar

...spare a thought for poor Windstar, or more accurately, their parent company Ambassador's International (AMIE on the Nasdaq).

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb 11, 2009 -- Ambassadors International, Inc., parent company of Windstar Cruises, today announced plans to sell the company's principal non-Windstar assets, replace the curre

SEATTLE, Dec. 24, 2008 -- Windstar Cruises' vessel Wind Surf assisted in the rescue of the French catamaran Sofrane off the North Coast of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea on the evening of Dec. 23, 2008.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 15, 2008 -- Ambassadors International, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMIE) announced today that Chairman and CEO Joseph J. Ueberroth, will voluntarily foregoe over $3M in compensation entitled to him under his employment agreement dated November 2, 2006.

SEATTLE, Dec. 11, 2009 -- Windstar Cruises announced today that it will suspend its fuel surcharge on all sailings departing after January 1, 2009, due to declining fuel prices.

SEATTLE, June 13, 2008 -- Hate transporting your bags to and from the ship?

SEATTLE, June 3, 2008 -- For the second year in a row, Windstar Cruises has been voted the best small-ship cruise vacation by the readers of Celebrated Living, American Airlines' first-class magazine.

SEATTLE, May 28, 2008 -- Windstar Cruises has been named "Most Romantic Cruise Line" by Porthole Magazine.

I have great sympathy for the guys who write financial press releases. Publicly-traded companies are required to report financial results, but the PR guys are under pressure to make even poor results sound rosy.